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  1. Re:And... They'll ruin it on Microsoft May Acquire Nook Tablet Business From Barnes and Noble · · Score: 1

    I doubt the old nook and nook color will have windows 8 ported to it. I doubt the nook color could run it, but the newer nook tablet might. Or they'll just stop updates and create a Nook Surface if they want to continue making hardware.

  2. Re:Its not the whole united states . on CenturyLink's Nationwide Outage Affects Millions · · Score: 1

    My east coast former Embarq DSL has been working all day.

  3. Re:Stupid on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    No shit they want their money now, you're breaking your relationship with them. Pay it and walk away. Try walking away from your mortgage but keeping the house.

  4. Re:Stupid on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    The 2 year 'contract' IS the cost of the phone. The service plan is month to month. You want to take off? Fine, pay for the part of the phone you haven't paid for yet and we're done. Of course it works the other way too, you want to get the latest cell phone? Pay off your existing one and get a new one whenever you want.

    Once again, they are very upfront with this.

  5. Re:Stupid on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh and BTW Washington AG, the pay for you phone fee is not hidden, they're very up front about it.

  6. Re:Stupid on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 3, Informative

    Exactly, there are no early termination fees, there is pay for the hardware you haven't finished paying for yet.

    Oh I'm sure that there are no shortage of people that 'didn't realize that' but T-Mobile shouldn't be on the hook for the stupidity of the public.

    As a side note, I will probably be switching to T-Mobile this weekend. I am fully aware that if I decide switch to someone else next month, I will need to pay for the phone completely and not over the course of 2 years.

  7. Re:If it ain't broke... on Texas Company's Antique Computers Are For Production, Not Display · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The problem with that can end up being "when it is broke, how are you going to fix it?"

  8. Re:I only drink coffee on Oracle Fixes 42 Security Vulnerabilities In Java · · Score: 1

    Java is used for a lot more than just powering websites.

  9. Re:Google, eh? on Google's Idea of Productivity Is a Bad Fit For Many Other Workplaces · · Score: 1

    This is exactly the feeling I have got from everything I've seen related to working at Google. I would never consider working at Google for that reason.

  10. Re:Just say no on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 1

    This is my solution. No one other then myself uses my computers.

  11. Re:Well, does the law force compliance? on WA State Bill Would Allow Bosses To Seek Facebook Passwords · · Score: 1

    Either way, you're probably fired. So you might as well go and take whatever action makes you feel better.

  12. Re:And why is this better than VNC? on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 5, Informative

    RDP on windows at least outperforms VNC by a wide margin both on fast and slow network connections.

  13. Re:Anyone ever use on Sony Reveals More PS4 and Dual Shock 4 Details · · Score: 1

    stop adding pointless features to their game pads

    I like Gran Turismo with speeds between stop and full throttle.

  14. Revisionist on Could Twitter Have Stopped the Media's Rush To War In Iraq Ten Years Ago? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The Iraq war was not an unpopular idea at the time. It became unpopular in hindsight.

  15. Re:Client/Mainframe on NVIDIA CEO Unveils Volta Graphics, Tegra Roadmap, GRID VCA Virtualized Rendering · · Score: 1

    We're calling it 'The Cloud' this time.

  16. Re:West Virginia is the butt... on West Virginia Won't Release Broadband Report Because It Is 'Embarrassing' · · Score: 1

    Ya and North Carolina wouldn't join the new United States until a Bill of Rights was codified and accepted but that doesn't change the fact that now they're trying really hard to shit on the rights of some of their people now.

    One act of ethics and morals by people long since dead does not give a State's government free pass to be assholes over 200 years later.

  17. Re:I'm not even a fan, but on Orson Scott Card's Superman Story Shelved After Homophobia Controversy · · Score: 1

    But by the same token, why are the people who are against what Card says so willing to censor his work?

    There is a difference between the government doing something (making it illegal) and a person choosing not to buy something. Once is censorship, the other is simply consumer choice.

  18. Re:No kidding on Security Firm Mandiant Says China's Army Runs Hacking Group APT1 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    I would expect it to be closer to:

    US: We want you to stop your cyberespionage in the US.
    China: You first.

  19. Build it? on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1

    What would be required to actually build it? I already have a 68k Mac, so the hardware is covered.

  20. Re:Customized resumes?????! on How Red Hat Hires · · Score: 1

    Red Hat is a major prize

    They're going to be like any other company.

  21. Re:How about graduated scale or deregulation ? on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It never made sense that I could send a letter down the street or Nome Alaska for the same amount of money.

    It does if the cost of the unusual (sending to Nome) is lowered because the cost of sending the usual (sending locally) is slightly increased.

    UPS, DHL and/or Fedex may be able to do it more efficiently.

    And yet they don't. Both UPS and FedEx use USPS for local delivery often because they're better at it. UPS and FedEx are a coin toss if they can find my house (2 miles from nearest town, 1 mile from highway, not exactly a mountain man), USPS gets it right every time. Unless it needs to be sent next day or so, USPS is far more reliable and cost effective.

    UPS and FedEx also don't deliver everywhere USPS does.

  22. That's cool, I guess ... on Life After MS-DOS: FreeDOS Keeps On Kicking · · Score: 5, Funny

    The graphics suck though.

  23. Re:What number system does God use? on Ask Dr. Robert Bakker About Dinosaurs and Merging Science and Religion · · Score: 2

    Base60 as the Sumerians intended.

  24. Re:What did they expect? on Mozilla Named 'Most Trusted Internet Company For Privacy' · · Score: 1

    You can't socialize without giving up some privacy, plain and simple.

    How do you figure?

  25. Re:Feedback on Fedora 18 Released · · Score: 2

    I got the upgrade started by adding the following option to fedup-cli
    --instrepo http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os/

    obviously replace x86_64 with i386 if you have to.